Jerry the Squirrel

Well.... This title may sound really exciting....but actually, it was quite the opposite. Tuesday morning around 1 AM Whitney came into my room and said "Guys, I think there is an animal in the closet where the heater is. I hear scratching." Oh.great. Just the words I want to hear. So Sarah gets out of bed to go check out the situation. They slowly open the closet with broom in hand for protection. Turns out it was a squirrel. A squirrel. In our apartment. And we are on the bottom of two floors. How the heck did a squirrel get in? So Sarah gets a box for Whitney and then comes back in our room and says if anything happens let us know (this whole time I am still in bed watching whats going on), then closes the door and gets back in bed. Later Whitney told me that she was like forget that, I'm going back to bed too! So needless to say the squirrel was still there. We didnt want to call maintenance though, because we were afraid they would show up and there be no squirrel and just think we were a bunch of dumb girls. Later that evening... Sarah and I were visiting teaching(Lauren) at the neighbors house while our other neighbor(Erika) was at our apartment being visit taught by Lexi. We were about to wrap things up when Erika comes back and says we need to go back because something has changed with the squirrel problem.Oh dear. So we quickly say a closing prayer and head home to find out that the squirrel got out from the closet and is in my bedroom.Awesome. So I go to the office to get the night managers phone number off the door. I call them and tell them whats going on, and they say they will be over shortly. Unfortunately our squirrel is a very good hider and we were unable to find him. So they told us to let them know if we had any problems before 10:30 to let them know and they would get ahold of maintenance, but if we didnt they would call maintenance in the morning and have them come check things out. Next day...I can hear scratching behind the dishwasher. Turns out somehow the squirrel got back there. So I move the dishwasher while Sarah is prepared to catch it with a box and a stick. All is well until I decide to get Lexi's camera from her because she cant see the squirrel, but I can. Then he decides to run and heads straight for my room,again(which there is a video of the squirrel and us screaming on Facebook, in case you're interested). Again we cant find squirrel in our room, so Sarah and Kim go to class and Lexi stays home(other story). Kim gets Lexi's facebook update to her phone "Squirrel..Ah!" So I text her to see whats up, and apparently the squirrel is back and in my room again. After class I get a call from Lexi saying I need to come home because the maintenance guys showed up with a dog to catch the squirrel in my room. So I get home and there are three guys in my room with a dog trying to catch the squirrel. Lexi tells me she has heard some interesting sounds and that before the guys showed up she got the squirrel on video coming down the hall and also jumping on my desk(which I found little presents from the squirrel on). The guys come out with a box and the squirrel jumping all around in it and head out the front door and just throw it in the air. They found the squirrel at the head of my mattress almost under my pillow. awesome. Then he apparently was all over the place and then they finallly caught him. HORRAY! NO MORE SQUIRREL!!!!! and all that was left where the little presents he left on our kitchen table and on my desk(which have now been properly disposed of). So that is my exciting story :)